The original ban was put into place in 1991, on the reasoning that women driving would result in the mixing of genders...So women have been forced to take taxis or hire drivers, where they would again be alone with unfamiliar men. The driving ban is pretty ridiculous, so an online group of women activists have launched a driving protest tomorrow (where the women will defy the law and drive)

Check out this video of a Manal Al Sharif (a women) driving in the city. She gives a good account of the progressive consciousnesses of the women and people of Saudi Arabia.

TigerTim saidHas anyone told FearTheFall? They'll be driving straight to his apartment to do him a mischief. Because all muslims are terrorists (apparently).

Not all. But the religion still reeks of fear and oppression, whereas other world faiths have modernized except for a few clumps of Christian extremists. Ke$ha's "Blow" is the theme song of Islam for a reason.

TigerTim saidHas anyone told FearTheFall? They'll be driving straight to his apartment to do him a mischief. Because all muslims are terrorists (apparently).

Not all. But the religion still reeks of fear and oppression, whereas other world faiths have modernized except for a few clumps of Christian extremists. Ke$ha's "Blow" is the theme song of Islam for a reason.

It's all relative, the Japanese are not thanking the US for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Updated | 3:15 p.m. Although random acts of women driving were reported in major cities across Saudi Arabia on Friday, the protest against the longstanding ban appears to have been smaller than initially anticipated after the Saudi government imprisoned a main organizer for nine days last month.

Scattered reports by social media and an informal network of activists suggested that the number of women who drove was in the dozens, with few incidents of confrontations with either the traffic or the morals police reported. At least half a dozen women who were stopped were escorted home and admonished not to drive again, said activists reached by telephone.

TigerTim saidHas anyone told FearTheFall? They'll be driving straight to his apartment to do him a mischief. Because all muslims are terrorists (apparently).

Not all. But the religion still reeks of fear and oppression, whereas other world faiths have modernized except for a few clumps of Christian extremists. Ke$ha's "Blow" is the theme song of Islam for a reason.

It's all relative, the Japanese are not thanking the US for nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What is your "it's all relative" implying? No one today nuked Japan except for maybe some 80 year old man. So there's no need for the U.S. to feel guilty. That's like telling Germany to not intervene with human rights because they had the Holocaust.